Patch 5.1 PTR: Official Patch Notes

Blizzard

General

The Pandaren Campaign begins!

The conflict between the Horde and the Alliance has ignited a new series of daily quests along the shore of the Krasarang Wilds.

Players can visit their faction strongholds in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms to begin the quest to summon their war fleets to the continent of Pandaria. (Please note: The Alliance version of this quest is not yet complete, but will still unlock the new missions and features).

Players will both valiantly defend their faction’s outpost and assault the opposing faction's headquarters.

Players can slay rival NPCs and opposing faction players along the shore to earn commissions that can be spent to upgrade their faction's base.

Look for strategic objectives to capture, including graveyards and towers. Commissions can be spent to recruit guards that will help protect this captured territory!

Players who are truly dedicated to their faction can spend their commissions on an item that will give their fellows an extra reputation group quest for the day. Horde players can speak with Ongrom Black Tooth, while Alliance players can contact Proveditor Grantley for details.

Pet Battles

A new item has been introduced that can be used to upgrade the quality of Battle Pets: Battle-stones.

Battle-stones are available in two basic types, general purpose Battle-stones that can be used to upgrade the quality of any pet, and family specific Battle-stones, which can only be used to upgrade pets of a specific pet family.

Players will have a very small chance to obtain a general purpose Flawless Battle-stone after winning a match against wild pets; defeating higher level opponents increases the chances of obtaining a stone. These valuable items are not soulbound, and can be sold on the Auction House.

Family specific Flawless Battle-stones can be found in the Sack of Pet Supplies obtained from performing Pet Trainer quests, and are Bind on Pickup.

General purpose Polished Battle-stones can be purchased for 1000 Justice Points.

Pet Journal

The quality of each pet is now visible in its slot in the Pet Journal.

Pets can now be filtered by name, type, rarity and level, and filters will remain in place each time the Pet Journal is viewed.

It is now possible to search locations in the Pet Journal. For example, searching “Westfall” will display all the Battle Pets that can be found in Westfall.

Right clicking a pet's portrait will now offer the option to look it up in the Pet Journal. Players can now keep up to 650 pets. Battle Pet tooltips will now display whether a pet is owned, and how many pets of that type are owned. Pet Quality is now displayed in battles, and will be visible on portraits, names and tooltips. The level of battle pets in a zone can now be seen on the map, and it’s now possible to see the strength of wild pets relative to your team at a glance. Backline pets now display debuffs affecting them as well as the remaining duration of these effects. The experience multiplier obtained by all seven Grand Master pet trainers in Pandaria has been increased to x5 from x3.5. The experience multiplier obtained by defeating Pet Trainers Julia Stevens, Old MacDonald, Zunta, and Dagra the Fierce has been reduced to x2.5 from x3.5. Macros have been added that allow for summoning random pets and random favorite pets. The achievement Taming the World now awards the Safari Hat, which increases pet experience gained from Pet Battles by 10%. The I Choose You achievement has been added for defeating Grand Master Aki. The reward for this achievement is gold. A new Master Pet Tamer offering daily quests has been added to the Darkmoon Faire. Completing quests for the new trainer will offer the chance to acquire a new pet: the Darkmoon Eye. Two new Battle Pets now roam Darkmoon Island waiting to be caught. Fixed a bug where the Gazelle would join pet battles.

UI

A new banner will appear when a player is subjected to an effect that causes them to lose control of their character. The effect that caused the loss of control and remaining duration will be displayed. Configuration options are available in the “Combat” section of the “Interface Options" menu.

A search bar has been added to the mount section of the Mount and Pet Journal.

The Mount and Pet Journal remembers which tab you were last using.

Brawler's Guild

Underground fighting rings have sprung up in Stormwind City and Orgrimmar that will give brawlers a chance to earn bragging rights by testing their solo PvE mettle against some of the toughest creatures found in World of Warcraft.

Players will prove their skill, and increase their rank with the Brawler's Guild, as they win matches against some of the most difficult solo encounters in World of Warcraft.

As their Brawler's Guild rank increases, players will unlock additional rewards and activities within the Brawler’s Guild.

Brawlers on a realm will gather together into the blood spattered ring to watch as their peers face down their own opponents. They can watch the battles in progress to learn from hardened Brawler's Guild veterans as they wait for their own turn to fight.

Comment by Rystrave

Comment by Iceveiled

Hopefully the new campaign will encourage organic PVP like hillsbrad foothills in the old days. Also the brawler's guild looks pretty neat. Shaping up to be a good patch!

Comment by jamesjiao

on Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:42:36 -0500

Some really exciting (and useful) changes to pet battle (which should've really been there in the first place, simple things like sorting by level/name).

Comment by Interest

on Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:38:59 -0500

Yay! More stuff to do! >_>

But dailies! =)

Comment by elionor

on Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:14:59 -0500

battle stones that let you upgrade your pet really? now they are just screwing with us

Comment by Interest

on Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:27:54 -0500

battle stones that let you upgrade your pet really? now they are just screwing with us

How so? It seems reasonably fair. I like that they at least make it rewarding to do pet battles after level 25 (though I'm not sure if just having the stones is going to add much more in terms of pet battling in the world).

Comment by Steamhammer

on Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:31:58 -0500

So is this US only?Just tried from EU & there are no servers.

Comment by Interest

on Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:06:17 -0500

So is this US only?Just tried from EU & there are no servers.

No it'll be on EU too. Just might have to wait a moment for them to show up. This has not been implemented on live yet, so don't worry - you haven't missed anything.

Comment by adashiel

on Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:33:27 -0500

I'm definitely looking forward to the battle stones. I would love to put together a pet team consisting of my White Kitten, Tiny Snowman, and Winter's Little Helper, but since they're only Uncommon, it's not very practical. I'm going to continue rare hunting, though, since I imagine the stones will be expensive and/or hard to obtain early on. I want to minimize the number I have to get.

I hope they don't implement the "Perfect" epic version of the battle stones that were datamined, though. At least not for the next patch. They would probably either be outrageously expensive or difficult to get, and yet I'd feel compelled to get one for each and every one of my pets, leveled or not.

Comment by Interest

on Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:27:35 -0500

I'm definitely looking forward to the battle stones. I would love to put together a pet team consisting of my White Kitten, Tiny Snowman, and Winter's Little Helper, but since they're only Uncommon, it's not very practical. I'm going to continue rare hunting, though, since I imagine the stones will be expensive and/or hard to obtain early on. I want to minimize the number I have to get.

I hope they don't implement the "Perfect" epic version of the battle stones that were datamined, though. At least not for the next patch. They would probably either be outrageously expensive or difficult to get, and yet I'd feel compelled to get one for each and every one of my pets, leveled or not.

Honestly, I think the stones should never exists and Epic-level pets should be obtained in some other way. Maybe put in a "paragon level" system once a pet reaches level 25 so you can train it to Epic (or other quality) levels? There are alternatives =).

Comment by nyrolf

on Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:28:45 -0500

seriously? more dailies? it's like 30 or 40 which are now on isn't enough :|

Comment by Interest

on Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:53:28 -0500

seriously? more dailies? it's like 30 or 40 which are now on isn't enough :|

Don't worry. By the time these new dailies come in you'll probably stop doing most of the old ones. Gotta find a way to farm Lesser Charms without doing the same boring dailies right?

Comment by edwordrules

on Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:19:18 -0500

It would be even better if they could make it a 2v2, 3v3 or even a 5v5 option as well.Do you know how annoying it is to hear some one from on guild say that this other guild sucks at PvP.This way they can just STFU and prove it. No going into a different area where no one can see whats going on.

Comment by Interest

on Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:09:57 -0500

It would be even better if they could make it a 2v2, 3v3 or even a 5v5 option as well.Do you know how annoying it is to hear some one from on guild say that this other guild sucks at PvP.This way they can just STFU and prove it. No going into a different area where no one can see whats going on.

They should just add a way to spectate arena matches and so on in general. It would add a lot to the PvP side of the game.

It would also take ages to implement, I suppose...

Comment by Ctarari

on Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:03:49 -0500

seriously? more dailies? it's like 30 or 40 which are now on isn't enough :|

Don't worry. By the time these new dailies come in you'll probably stop doing most of the old ones. Gotta find a way to farm Lesser Charms without doing the same boring dailies right?

Agreed. Already finished Order of the Cloud serpent and almost finished with the tillers myself, so for me, new dailies are nice. Because while I love my CS, the dailies there suck XD

And the fact is, as an engineer, not many ways to make money on my server (I can sell ore, but the pets and such don't sell very well) , so dailies are a good avenue for monetary gain.

The sad thing is.... It's Thursday and I already have enough lesser charms for next week's turn in plus almost half of the week after. I wish they'd make the turn ins more frequent

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